"Dressing" for Dinner
A visitor to the Eiviera writes that ho never realised until now the real significance of'tho expression, "Dressing for dinner" (states an exchange). To study the enormous crowds on the terraces in. front of such resorts, for instance, as the Miramar and the Martinez Hotels at Cannes between 0 and 8 each evening—when it is often necessary to wait some time for a table —and then to sco the .same crowds an hour or two later is a curious experience. I The day-time costumes arc so sketchy ) that one well-known London visitor, on ' seeing posters advertising a competition for the most elegant and exotic 'deshabille, could only exclaim, "Well, I 1 don't see what else they could leave | off, unless it's smoking!"
! There were 614.320 births and 454.0S.1? | deaths registered in England and Wales i during 1002. Population, therefore, increased by 1"»0,237, compared with an average over five years of 1G2,5!)1. The number of persons married during the year was 612,264. - I
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 19
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165"Dressing" for Dinner Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 103, 28 October 1933, Page 19
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